Actors

Googie Withers

Googie Withers (1917-2011) b. Karachi, Pakistan.

Georgette Lizette Withers was born in Karachi, in pre-partition India, to a British naval captain and a Dutch mother. At 12, while a boarder at Fredville Park private school near Dover, she took dancing lessons, initially to straighten bandy legs. At the same age she made her first professional appearance, in the chorus of a children’s show at the Victoria Palace, London. She persuaded her parents to send her to the Italia Conti school after she had worked her normal school day at the Convent of the Holy Family in Kensington.

Married to John McCallum, the leading man in her two best films, Googie Withers moved to Australia in the 1950s, where she continued to work – Country Life (1994). She returned to Britain in the 1980s and gave two fine television performances in Hotel du Lac (1986) and Northanger Abbey (1987). She also appeared in Shine (1996), a film based on the career of David Helfgott, the pianist struggling against family pressures and mental instability, whose real-life interpretation of Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto was used in the film and became a controversial attraction in the concert hall.

Recent Trailers

Footer #3 Widget

This is an example of a widgeted area that you can place text to describe a particular product or service. You can also use other WordPress widgets such as recent posts, recent comments, a tag cloud or more.

Footer #4 Widget

This is an example of a widgeted area that you can place text to describe a particular product or service. You can also use other WordPress widgets such as recent posts, recent comments, a tag cloud or more.